Big 

USINESS 


For 

Busy 

People 

1921.1922 


The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A. 
1S6  Fifth  Avenue.  New  York 


FlfELD  A  BlG  FIELD 


Africa,  China,  Chosen 
India,  Japan, 
Mexico,  Persia, 
Philippines, 

Siam,  Braizil, 

Chile,  Colombia, 

Guatemala, 

Venezuela, 

Syria, 

Orientals  in  U.  S.  A. 


In  1  72  stations  where 
missionaries  reside. 

In  2000  places  where 
regular  services  are 
held. 


UNDER  24  FLAGS 


AMONG  67  NATIONALITIES*  94  LANGUAGES  SPOKEN* 


Presbyterian  Responsibility  100,000,000  Souls 


A  DIPLOMAT’S  TRIBUTE  TO  PRESBY- 
TERIAX  MISSIONARIES: 

“I  have  always  felt  that  the  American 
missionaries  were  not  ‘ordinary  mortals’! 
They  are  here  admittedly  neither  for 
pleasure  nor  profit,  but  for  service.  They 


usually  know  a  great  deal  more  about  the 
country  and  the  people  'wdth  whom  they 
are  working  than  we  diplomats,  and  they 
certainly  have  more  friends  among  them! 
They  are  doing  a  great  work  in  the  four 
corners  of  the  earth,  of  which  every  right- 


minded  American  ought  to  be  very  proud, 
and  for  which  we  diplomats  admire  them 
immensely.  They  must  have  counted  the 
cost  long  before  they  started,  and  if  the 
thought  of  dangers  and  of  obstacles  had 
been  uppermost  in  their  minds  they  would 
not  have  come.” 


♦Ilnndrods  of  dialects,  many  tribes  and  castes  not  included. 


BIG  FORCES  AT 


WORK 


AT  HOME 

1  (ieueral  Assembly 

46  Synods  9,842  Churches 

302  Presbyteries  1,722,361  Members 

1  BoaiM  of  Foreign  Missions 
24  Members 

13  ordained  men  1  manufacturer 
1  lawyer  1  real  estate  man 

3  bankers  1  merchant 


ABROAD 

1,531  Missionaries  (April  1,  1921,  figures) 
416  Ordained 
8  9  Lay 

89  Men  physicians 
20  Women  physicians 
3  79  Single  Women 
538  Wives 

7,356  Native  Associates 
423  Ordained 


The  pupils  of  the  great  Shantung  Chris¬ 
tian  University  (union  institution)  come 
from  70  different  preparatory  schools  scat¬ 
tered  over  14  provinces  of  China.  During 
the  Summer  Daily  Vacation  Bible  Schools, 
103  men  from  this  University  volunteered 
for  the  work  and  gave  two  months  entirely 
free  service.  The  Bible  was  daily  taught 
in  the  schools.  Of  the  volunteers,  more 
than  61  were  from  the  medical  depart¬ 
ment  of  the  University.*  Mr.  Wun,  a  well 
known  Christian  leader  in  the  College, 
acted  as  Superintendent  of  the  District. 


2  business  men  1  exporter 


2,150  Unordained 


1  physician 

5  Secretaries  and  1  Associate  Secretary 

4  District  Secretaries  and  1  Associate 
Secretary 

1  Field  Secretary 
1  Educational  Adviser  (Honorary) 

1  Educational  Secretary  and  1  Assistant 
Secretary 

1  Secretary  for  Specific  Work 

4  Medical  Advisers  (Honorary) 

1  Treasurer  and  1  Associate  Treasurer 

4  Returned  Missionaries  rendering  tem¬ 
porary  service  in  the  office. 

19  Departments  at  headquarters 

4  Offices  of  District  Secretaries 

5  Special  Committees  for  the  home  side 

of  the  work 

6  Field  Committees  for  the  foreign  work 

1  Finance  Committee  (included  in  above  1 
composed  of  one  lawyer,  two  bankers, 
one  manufacturer,  and  one  real 
estate  man. 


3,866 

917 


At  Woi'k  In 

1,088 

3,573 

4,277 

2,322 

167 

Among 

88,464 

371,100 

Through 

8 

133,363,932 


Teachers 

Bible  Women  and  other 
workers 

Churches 

Groups 

Sunday  Schools 
Schools  of  all  grades 
Hospitals  and  Dispensaries 

Pupils 

Patients 

Presses  which  printed 
pages  in  one  year 


The  financial  business  is  carried  on  from 
15  6  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  through  some 
30  banks  and  branches  in  the  U.  S.  A., 
and  at  least  10  banks  in  other  countries. 
Exchange  must  be  daily  noted  for  some  15 
different  currencies. 


In  connection  with  the  Medical  School 
of  the  Miraj  Hospital  in  India  (a  self- 
supporting  institution  which  last  year 
treated  over  50,000  patients)  is  a  depart¬ 
ment  of  Bible  instruction  for  the  students, 
the  teaching  given  by  an  ordained  mis¬ 
sionary.  All  but  four  of  the  48  students 
of  the  medical  school  are  Christians  pre¬ 
paring  for  medical  missionary  w'ork. 


Pyongyang  Station,  Chosen,  has  had  a 
BIG  year.  Most  of  the  churches  have  re¬ 
ported  an  increase  in  attendance  of  from 
20  to  100%  and  in  some  other  sections  of 
the  country  there  was  a  similar  or  even 
greater  increase.  A  large  number  of 
churches  doubled  and  quite  a  few  even 
trebled  their  attendance  during  the  last 
year.  The  w'hole  country  seems  to  be  open 
to  the  gospel  message  as  never  before. 

If  the  money  were  available  to  support 
evangelists,  it  is  believed  that  a  church 
could  be  established  within  a  year  in  prac¬ 
tically  every  village  in  the  country. 


*  Enrolled  1920.  94  i)npils. 


BIG  WORK  BIG  WORK 

\  _ 


1.  The  preaching  places  in  Tokyo 

are  usually  humble  and  lowly.  A  new  one, 
the  most  remarkable  of  all,  was  opened  in 
July  in  a  large  room  of  a  woolen  mer¬ 
chant’s  shop.  Six  ministers  officiated.  One 
presided,  one  read  the  Scripture,  one 
prayed,  the  missionary  preached,  a  Japan¬ 
ese  pastor  administered  the  Lord’s  Supper, 
and  the  sixth,  the  pastor  of  a  nearby 
church,  baptized  twenty-one  business  men 
of  the  immediate  locality.  It  was  a  BIG 
BUSINESS  to  carry  the  church  to  these 
men  in  their  own  environment,  in  the  very 
shop  where  the  next  day  they  would  buy 
and  sell.  _ 

2.  One  of  the  BIGgest  things  of  the 
Board’s  BUSINESS  at  the  present  time  is 
the  rehabilitation  of  the  American  Press 
at  Beirut,  Syria,  which  is  to  celebrate  its 
100th  anniversary  in  1922. 

This  Press  pours  Christian  literature,  in¬ 
cluding  books  on  education,  over  the  Mo¬ 
hammedan  world  from  Egypt  to  Mesopo¬ 
tamia,  including  Syria.  The  war  almost 
destroyed  the  plant  and  equipment.  It 
needs  $250,000  to  reestablish  it.  During 
the  war  it  was  the  clearing  house  for  more 
than  $20,000,000  relief  funds.  If  the 
Press  is  not  rehabilitated,  the  American 
Bible  Society  and  the  missions  in  the  Near 
East  will  not  be  able  to  secure  Bibles  and 
Christian  literature  for  the  extension  of 
their  work.  - 

3.  The  first  group  of  eight  missionaries, 
sent  out  three  years  before  the  Board  was 
organized,  took  with  them  a  small  hand- 
press.  The  Manager  of  the  Beirut  Press, 
returning  in  August,  took  with  him  for  the 
rehabilitation  of  the  Press: 

Materials  for  a  new  two-story  Press 
Building,  steel  construction,  size  60  x  124, 
and  for  a  one-story  office  building,  steel 
construction,  40  x  60,  amounting  in  weight 


to  145,000  lbs.  at  a  cost  of  $35,000.  Also, 
one  concrete-making  machine;  electric 
equipment;  two  fuel  engines;  steel  office 
equipment;  linotype  machine,  (English  and 
Arabic) ;  printing  press  and  equipment. 
Total  weight,  199,832  lbs.  Cost  $60,153. 
BIG  BUSINESS!  _ _ 

4.  A  recently  organized  American  cor¬ 
poration,  backed  by  the  approval  of  our 
Department  of  Commerce,  is  about  to  un¬ 
dertake  a  large  trading  business  directly 
with  Persia.  For  this  purpose  they  expect 
to  charter  a  ship  to  sail  this  Fall  to  Busrah, 
carrying  a  large  assortment  of  clothing, 
hardware,  typewriters,  sewing  machines, 
soaps  and  perfumeries,  screens,  harness 
and  saddles,  shoes,  drugs  and  various  other 
articles  of  special  demand  in  Persia.  The 
agent  or  representative  who  is  one  of  the 
most  important,  if  not  the  most  important 
missionary  link  in  this  enterprise,  is  a 
young  Syrian,  a  Colgate  University  gradu¬ 
ate,  who  received  his  preliminary  educa¬ 
tion  in  a  Presbyterian  mission  school  con¬ 
nected  with  the  Urumia  station.  His 
family  belongs  to  the  church  community  in 
the  martyred  village  of  Geogtapa,  the 
village  which  was  saved  at  one  time  during 
the  war  by  the  heroic  efforts  of  Dr.  Packard 
of  Urumia. 

Persia  needs  BIG  BUSINESS  with  Amer¬ 
ica.  American  prestige  in  Persia  is  BIG. 


,5.  BIG  BUSINESS  in  America  is  keen¬ 
ly  interested  today  in  Mexico.  A  delega¬ 
tion  of  American  business  men  has  recently 
returned  from  that  country;  another  dele¬ 
gation  has  just  reached  Mexico  City. 
American  capital  and  enterprise  are  re¬ 
sponsive  as  never  before  to  the  opportuni¬ 
ties  there  for  investment  and  development. 

Even  more  obvious  are  the  BIG  BUSI- 
Nt!SS  opportunities  in  Mexico  that  are  now 


open  to  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Our 
Church  has  been  allotted  and  has  accepted 
certain  territory  in  Mexico  for  which  it 
alone  is  responsible,  and  which  embraces 
eight  states.  In  all  this  region  there  are 
only  thirty-four  missionaries;  one  mis¬ 
sionary,  mian  or  w'oman,  for  everj'  one  hun¬ 
dred  thousand  Mexicans.  In  certain  w’hole 
states  the  Board  owns  no  property  and  must 
rent  buildings  at  exorbitant  prices  for  its 
schools  and  missionary  residences.  In  Vera 
Cruz,  the  great  seaport  of  Mexico,  in  the 
center  of  the  Presbyterian  territory,  the 
question  has  actually  been  raised  of  -with¬ 
drawing  from  established  work  there  be¬ 
cause  of  this  lack  of  property.  The  need 
is  as  deep  and  critical  as  the  opportunity 
is  great  and  wide. _ 

6.  Whatever  the  present  ramifications 
of  China’s  difficulties,  her  problems  can  be 
driven  back  ultimately  to  a  need  for  edu¬ 
cation  and  character,  and  no  more  direct 
and  promising  solution  has  been  offered 
for  this  central  problem  than  that  supplied 
by  the  Christian  Colleges  and  Universities 
in  China.  The  Presbyterian  share  in  these 
institutions  is  a  large  and  inspiring  one. 
There  are  four  colleges  and  universities, 
all  of  them  union  institutions.  The  Hang¬ 
chow  Christian  College,  the'  University  of 
Nanking,  whose  College  of  Agriculture  has 
been  formally  registered  by  the  Chinese 
Government,  the  first  time  in  Chinese  his¬ 
tory  that  a  Christian  Institution  has  been 
thus  recognized;  the  Shantung  Christian 
Pniversity,  with  the  largest  medical  school 
and  staff  under  directly  mission  auspices 
in  China;  and  the  Peking  University,  which 
in  September  broke  ground  for  its  new 
buildings  on  its  new  site  outside  the  Peking 
City  walls.  From  these  institutions  are 
going  forth  men  who  can  lead  in  making 
a  new  China. — No  BIGger  BUSINESS! 


BIG  FIGURES 


MISSIONARIES  IN  SERVICE  OF  BOARD 

1837-1921 — 3403 

Total  missionaries,  1837 —  38 

1921 — 1606 

Force  has  increased  in  last  20  years 
from  715  to  1606  (includes  sailings,  sum¬ 
mer,  1921), 

Net  gain  1919,  1920,  1921 —  242. 


*YEARS  OF  SERVICE  RENDERED 
37,682 


TERMS  OF  SERVICE 

Individually,  the  years  of  missionary 
service  range  from  ONE  to  SEVENTY- 
EIGHT. 


One  Secretary  of  the  Board  was  in  serv¬ 
ice  SIXTY  YEARS. 

A  present  BOARD  MEMBER  has  been  in 
service  THIRTY-EIGHT  YEARS. 


“The  BIG  thing  is  to  get  confidently  to 
work  on  the  task,  the  results  of  which  no¬ 
body  can  possibly  foresee.  •  It  is  in  this 
spirit  that  very  many  of  the  biggest  things 
in  history  have  been  done.” 

Ambassador  Page  to  Col.  House,  April,  1014. 


*  Figures  given  are  not  complete  for  the  earlier 
years  when  the  records  were  not  as  accurately 
kept. 


Oct.,  1021 


Form  2821 


BIG  FIGURES 


RECEIPTS  OF  THE  BOARD 
1837-1921 

In  round  numbers  $71,000,000. 
For  Ten  years  the  Annual  re¬ 


ceipts  were  under .  $  100,000 

Eleven  years  under .  200,000 

Eleven  years  under .  300,000 

Two  years  under .  400,000 

Six  years  under .  500,000 

Four  years  under .  600,000 

Three  years  under .  700,000 

Five  years  under .  900,000 

Seven  years  under .  1,000,000 

Fifteen  years  under .  2,000,000 

Eight  years  under .  3,000,0(^0 

One  year  under .  4,000,000 

One  year  under .  5,000,000 


BUDGET  OF  THE  YEAR 

1921-1922 

Not  Less  Than . $3,960,000.00 

Received  for  first  six  months  of 

the  year  . $1,115,325.74 

The  BUSINESS  IS  BIG. 

WHAT  IS  YOUR  SHARE  IN  IT? 


